Sandra Mims Rowe

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Dear Attorney General Holder and Deputy Attorney General Cole: CPJ's board of directors rarely has seen the need to raise its collective voice against U.S. government actions that threaten newsgathering. Today, however, we write to vigorously protest the secret seizing of phone records of The Associated Press. The overly broad scope of the subpoena and the lack of notification to the AP represent a damaging setback for press freedom in the United States and set a terrible example for the rest of the world.

Kassahun Yilma left Ethiopia quickly in December 2009. He
didn't have time to save money for the journey, choose a place to go, arrange
housing or a job. He left his wife, his mother, his house and all his friends
behind. Yilma didn't know what lay ahead. He only knew that if he stayed, he
risked becoming a victim of a government-waged campaign against Addis Neger, the newspaper where he
worked as a reporter. "I ran away just
to save my life," says Yilma, "because I was in fear for it."

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New York, July 18, 2011--Five distinguished
leaders of new and traditional media worldwide have joined the board of directors
of the Committee to Protect Journalists. The new members--John Carroll, Arianna
Huffington, Jonathan Klein, Mhamed Krichen, and Jacob Weisberg--join a roster of
remarkable journalists and news executives playing a vital role in CPJ's fight
for press freedom.